Chuck Blakeman: Why Employees Are Always a Bad idea

Does your organization build meaning for all stakeholders?

Do you assign tasks or responsibilities?

Do you assign lunch schedules and recess periods for your employees as you would a five-year old? Or do you empower adults with the tools and resources to rise to self-managed Stakeholders?

Is your organization living in the past Industrial Age quickly approaching extinction or is your organization living and breathing in today’s Participation Age?

The answers to these questions will determine your chances of not only surviving but thriving in today’s hyper-competitive global markets for sales and talent.

Chuck Blakeman has built eight businesses in seven industries on four continents.  As an internationally acclaimed business speaker averaging more than 100 speaking engagements and workshops per year, he has been quoted and featured in Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur Magazine and more.

His organization, The Crankset Group, helps founders and CEOs build Participation Age companies and re-ignite the original passion that inspired their business ventures.

He’s recently published Why Employees Are Always A Bad Idea (and other business diseases of the Industrial Age.) We’re going to hear his list of 7 diseases of the industrial age, their symptoms and how to avoid them. We’ll also talk about some of the companies who are lighting the path for the rest of us out of the Industrial Age and into the Participation Age, bringing adults and customers and revenues and meaning along with them.

Listen in and find out how you can follow in their footsteps or race ahead and light the way for others to follow.